Factsheets en monitoring

Sprachen

Honey bee population on Vancouver Island is all but wiped out

Sa, 02/20/2010 - 13:06 – Henk Tennekes

By many accounts, the honey bee population on Vancouver Island is down 90 per cent heading into the spring of 2010. After a die-off of 65 per cent in 2007 and a good recovery last year, honey bees are now teetering on the point of a catastrophe. The wipeout is serious because bees play an integral part in crop pollination, and because Vancouver Island is a major exporter of honeybees.